Double Crossword

Choice of cryptic or quick puzzle, and (just in case you've been wracking your brains) yesterday's solutions.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Jan 2011, 08:20 BST
Updated 20th Jan 2011, 09:40 BST

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1 See 18 Down.

3. Track providing two methods of transport (8)

8. From the lake we refilled this (4)

9. They are used for heating basic materials (8)

11. Troop leaders scorn teachers (5-7)

13. Not exactly eighteen holes! (6)

14. The sort of mate that can be relied on (6)

17. Unsuitable abodes for hibernators? (6-6)

20. Not in favour of presenting problems after work (8)

21. Give a hand to a Verdi composition (4)

22. Love song composed about the present time (8)

23. Formerly found in a rehabilitation centre (4)

Down

1. He supplies material for broadcasting (8)

2. Decidedly shaky, musically speaking (7)

4. Nothing in a place to live on the water (6)

5. This restricts the learner to singly copy (10)

6. Proprietor to make an admission with some hesitation (5)

7. Rush to frustrate (4)

10. Man soon set to become a builder (5-5)

12. Does it depict the waters near a headland? (8)

15. Obtains a different form of defence (7)

16. Was active on a pressing occasion (6)

18 And 1 Across. Superior dentures for aristocratic cliques! (5,4)

19. They produce fuel records (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Select (4)

3. Supremely happy (8)

8. Eat (4)

9. Jeers at (8)

11. Thanks (12)

13. Involve (6)

14. Gratify (6)

17. Resisting (12)

20. Trick (8)

21. Agitate (4)

22. Unflagging (8)

23. Battle (4)

Down

1. Ancestry (8)

2. Touch (7)

4. Association (6)

5. Smattering (10)

6. Converge (5)

7. Inventory (4)

10. Charming (10)

12. Sordid (8)

15. Airman (7)

16. Stores (6)

18. Bury (5)

19. Final (4)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC

Across: 1 Obsolescent; 9 Israeli; 10 Worse; 11 Hands; 12 Miss out; 13 Soared; 15 Dowser; 18 Haricot; 20 Topic; 22 Olive; 23 Average; 24 Secretaries.

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Down: 2 Byron; 3 Oversee; 4 Enigma; 5 Cowls; 6 Nervous; 7 Night school; 8 Test cricket; 14 Airline; 16 Outwear; 17 At last; 19 Clear; 21 Place.

QUICK

Across: 1 Practicable; 9 Endemic; 10 Train; 11 Loose; 12 Mariner; 13 Cloven; 15 Putrid; 18 Marquee; 20 Dwell; 22 Nomad; 23 Eminent; 24 Interrogate.

Down: 2 Radio; 3 Compete; 4 Income; 5 Alter; 6 Learner; 7 Replacement; 8 Incredulity; 14 Oarsman; 16 Undoing; 17 Veneer; 19 Undue; 21 Exert.